Injury
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Loading stress due to individual variations in femoral morphology is thought to be strongly associated with the pathogenesis of atypical femoral fracture (AFF). In Japan, studies on AFF regarding pathogenesis in the mid-shaft are well-documented and a key factor in the injury is thought to be femoral shaft bowing deformity. Thus, we developed a CT-based finite element analysis (CT/FEA) model to assess distribution of loading stress in the femoral shaft. ⋯ CT/FEA demonstrated that tensile stress by loading stress can cause AFF. The location of AFF injury could be determined by individual stress distribution influenced by femoral bowing and neck-shaft angle.
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With nearly 50 years' of development, Injury has become one of the leading journals in its specialty. The aim of this article is to identify, analyze the characteristics of the 100 most cited articles published by the journal to date. ⋯ This study may help researchers to find out the important information on the classic articles and provides useful insights for the authors who want to publish their research in Injury.
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Indication of volar locking plate (VLP) removal after bony healing of distal radius fracture (DRF) is controversial. Studies with various range of removal rate were reported. The purpose of this systematic review was to investigate the frequency and the reasons of hardware removal over the world. We hypothesized that more frequent VLP removal contribute to better clinical outcomes. ⋯ There was a diversity of removal rate and reasons in the studies over the world. High frequent VLP removal did not contribute to better clinical outcomes.
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Prospective studies on patient related outcome in patients <70years with a femoral neck fracture (FNF) are few. We aimed to investigate functional outcome and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in 20-69years old patients with a FNF treated with internal fixation. ⋯ Two thirds of the patients with displaced femoral neck fracture healed after one operation and three quarters reported good or excellent functional outcome at 24 months. However, they did not regain their pre-fracture level of HRQoL.
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Synthetic bone grafts (SBGs) are widely used to fill bone defects after fracture reduction. This study assessed the long-term resorption of two different calcium phosphate products (A=ChronOS™ inject and B=Norian® SRS®; both DePuy Synthes, Oberdorf, Switzerland) used in the surgical treatment of tibial plateau fractures. ⋯ Case series, Level IV.